Twenty Years Among the Colporteurs
New York: American Tract Society, (1865).
Hardcover. Near fine. pp 91, [3] ads. Original brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Minor wear to spine ends, else fine. A scarce and interesting account of the activities of colporteurs—men (some laymen, some ordained) who traveled the countryside selling religious books and tracts and spreading the gospel in the western settlements. Peabody began work as a colporteur in 1845 while on summer break from Seminary, and found it to be a more fruitful enterprise than he had expected, as "these books, when carried and sold in families who will not voluntarily seek such instruction, will be extensively read. The results...may last for generations. These elegant, well-bound volumes, when once introduced into a family, are not going to be thrown away."
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